Moodle PD Sample

Editor's Notes

• #2: This screencast is going to show you how to add more topic boxes to your Moodle page. While this may sound intimidating it is actually quite simple to do and can save you the trouble of over filling a topic box.
• #3: Picture this: You are adding information from class to your Moodle page for your students and parents to access it. You’ve decided that you are going to have a separate topic box for each unit that you teach. It’s time to add information for Unit 6 and oh no! There are no more available topic boxes! So now you start to panic and look for a button. There needs to be a Moodle icon for this. Is it the hand – no. Is it the arrow- no. Ugh! What do I do? I don’t want to have to call the ITRT or ask one of my colleagues! Fear not! A simple solution can be found!
• #4: On the left hand side of the Moodle page you will see the “Administration” tool bar. Under “Administration” is the title of “Settings.” Once you click on settings you will be able to control a lot of different features on your Moodle page.
• #5: You will want to scroll down until you find the “number of weeks/topics” option from the menu. Moodle ideally wants you to use each topic box for each separate week that you teach. For this reason there are 52 total topic boxes available that correspond with the 52 weeks in the year.
• #6: Press the arrow next to the number of weeks/topics and then select the number of topic boxes you would like. Some people choose one more box than they have—some plan for the future and add as many as they will need for the whole year.
• #7: Don’t forget to scroll down and press save changes when you are done adding the number of topic boxes that you will need! Hope this helped! Stay tuned for the next Moodle screencast!